Environmental Studies

Environmental studies at Bowdoin reflects the College's recognition that humans must learn to live in harmony with nature and that human activities are dependent upon natural processes.

In the Field: Milkweed Farm
Introduction to Environmental Studies capped off our food and agriculture unit by paying a visit to a local farm. Compared to our discussions about global commodity chains, Milkweed Farm offered a much shorter route from soil to table.
Prints and Traces: The Environment in Special Collections
Students in the Introduction to Environmental Studies class visited Special Collections paging through other artist’s books that had some connection to environmental studies.
Gardens of the Past: The Sourdough Project
An environmental historian recently visited Bowdoin to speak about a global citizen-science effort to map and genetically sequence some of humanity’s microbial partners: the yeasts and bacteria found in sourdough bread.

Student Research

"The Progressive Roots of ALEC: Familial Wealth and Anti-Democracy in the Conservation Era", February, 28, 2019

In the Field: Milkweed Farm

Prints and Traces: The Environment in Special Collections

Gardens of the Past: The Sourdough Project

Historian Joseph E. Taylor III

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